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Title: Mechanical vibratory stimulation : its theory and application in the treatment of disease
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Pilgrim, Maurice F. (Maurice Fiescher), 1885-1903
Subjects: Vibration Vibration
Publisher: New York : Lawrence
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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there is no part that is so little un-derstood in its relationship to the generalhealth or the importance of which is sogreatly under-estimated. Certainly the olderphysiologies do not even give a lucid, muchless an adequate idea, of the important partwhich the lymphatic system plays in thefunctionation process of the human body. The statement so generally made that theblood leaves the heart by the arteries and re-turns through the veins, is only partially true,inasmuch as in the capillaries some of the bloodplasma finds its way into the cells of the tis-sues and nourishes its elements. The lymphfluid is collected and conveyed back into theblood by a system of vessels called lymphatics.They commence in a series of lymph capil-laries in the organs and tissues of the bodyand terminate in two large trunks which openinto the larger veins near the heart — the tho-racic duct on the left, and the right lymphatictrunk on the right. (See Plate H.) The lymph 36 Plate II Right lympliatit duct.
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Diagram showing the deeper lymphatics of the body. (The deeper lymphatics are best reached by placing patient onback, knees well elevated, and applying deep vibratory pressure oneach side of the abdomen just below the umbilicus, using for this pur-pose, attachrnent No. 1, as shown in Plate VIII. THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM 37 which they contain, unhke the blood, passes inonly one direction — from the smaller branchesto the trunk and thence into the large veinswhere it loses its identity as a distinct fluid andbecomes part of the constituents of the blood.Th^ lymph capillaries commence in closelymeshed network and also in irregular lacunarspaces between the various structures of whichthe different organs are composed. They arealso found in closed cavities or sacs, such asserous membranes, etc. All parts of the body,beginning with the head and neck, are plenti-fully supplied with lymphatic vessels commonlyknown as the lymphatics. All the lymphaticspass at some point of their course, throughw

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